Friday, 3 February 2017

Scientists tissue-engineer functional part of human stomach

Scientists
have used pluripotent stem cells to generate human stomach tissues in a Petri
dish that produce acid and digestive enzymes. They grew tissues from the
stomach's corpus/fundus region. The study comes two years after the same team
generated the stomach's hormone-producing region (the antrum). The discovery
means investigators now can grow both parts of the human stomach to study
disease.

The
discovery means investigators now can grow both parts of
the human stomach to study disease, model new treatments and understand human
development and health in ways never before possible.